I think it is widely accepted that Rust is more safe. (There comes the NPM factor too so it's not entirely clear). The thing is just, you are excited about this technology, and you are equating "engineering" with "security". You are willing to pretend that other merits and factors don't exist, including ergonomics of iteration, or inertia. I tried writing my usual explorative Win32 code in Rust for an evening. Well, it was painful and I went back to do it the way that works for me, that is supported by all the official tooling, and that the official documentation is written in. I also can't see myself reading reasonable Rust code quicker than I can read and write reasonable C code in a year down the line. It's just too intricate, too clever, too condensed / abstracted and at the same time too verbose. Another time I went to download a couple simple projects (e.g. text editor) to dabble a bit with. But the stuff was too opaque and had _hundreds_ of third-party dependencies, and I couldn't understand it well. So I lost interest.

Choice of language and ecosystem is an economic matter. They get chosen based on what one knows and what one wants and how one evaluates the possibilities. "Security" quite frankly is not the most important of concerns in most situations, and for a good reason. I frankly am not getting paid in finding the nicest or "most secure" way to write a piece of code, but to get it done. I am not interested in following the development of the hundreds of dependencies of my Rust project, and to change my data structures when they learned a better way to design the API to those "safe" data structures.

But you are seeing only "security". Well, it's most secure to just shut your computer off. So much for "objectivity". Maybe you _are_ the zealot!